Experimental Astronomy

Contact: Jochem Baselmans

The experimental astronomy group takes advantage of cutting edge superconducting nanoelectronics to develop instruments that enable us to study the Universe, through observations that are currently impossible.

Projects under this theme

Terahertz Integral Field Unit with Universal Nanotechnology

TIFUUN is an imaging spectrometer for mapping the submillimeter-wave universe in 3D

Deep Spectroscopic High-redshift Mapper

DESHIMA is an integrated superconducting spectrometer for wideband submillimeter astronomy

History

Multi Object Spectrometer with an Array of superconducting Integrated Circuits

Redshift instrument simultaneously measures 25 galaxies

Kinetic Inductance Detectors: a new imaging technology for observations in and from space

Imaging arrays of kinetic inductance detectors for space-based astronomical and earth observation applications